Authors: Matt Pelletier, Zed Shaw
Pages: 106
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN13: 9780321483508
This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile Ruby Web server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a useful reference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and production environments, as well as a handbook for how you can extend Mongrel to suit your own needs.
In addition to covering how to use and extend Mongrel, we also review a number of topics that we consider "Best Practices" for modern software development,deployment, and performance testing. We discuss these in the context of using Mongrel, but they should be considered applicable to any software project. Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniques of others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, and philosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits.
Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4
Section 2: Introduction 6
Section 3: Getting Started 13
Section 4: Configurations 20
Section 5: Production Deployment 37
Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60
Section 7: Debugging 79
Section 8: Performance 90
Section 9: Security 96
Resources 103
Acknowledgments 105
About the Authors 106